Janet Suzman Quotes

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

Your trip in this life is very provisional, but the best thing you can do in your life to live in the right way is to take every day as a great opportunity to do what you can and when you're as lucky as I have been in life in getting so much attention and exposure, you learn that you can move mountains with a very small effort.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.